Xuanxia

Chapter 1093: There is no good or evil, only change
No one in the capital knew that Ning Baimei had come out of seclusion.

After he came out of retreat that night, he entertained the banished immortal in the kitchen, then cleaned up the kitchen and left.

The door of the quiet room was still closed, and no one in the mansion even knew that he had left.

No one knew that Ning Baimei had already gone thousands of miles away.

In fact, it is no longer in the mainland.

Ning Baimei stood alone above the boundless ocean, looking down.

Looking up, the sky was split into two, one with the scorching sun hanging high in the sky, and the other with the pitch-black night. There was no transition between the two, as if two completely different canvases were forcibly sewn together.

Ning Baimei closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

He could feel the extremely chaotic spiritual world here, as well as the extremely violent undercurrents in the depths of the ocean.

This place was once a mysterious area called the "Lightless Sea".

It is said that the Lightless Sea had not seen the sun for a hundred years, and had not seen night for another hundred years. This cycle repeated repeatedly, and the people living on the islands in this sea were tortured by the endless nights and days. Eventually, they developed a special skill to control their own and others' five senses in order to adapt to life here.

But a thousand years ago, the Heavenly Sword was born, the foundation of heaven and earth was shaken, the caves dried up, and the Lightless Sea also changed. The skylight and the night sky each occupied half of the sky, and it was fixed forever.

Others may not know the reason, but Ning Baimei knows.

The banished immortal told him.

The deepest part of the Lightless Sea is the Tianzhu Cave Heaven among the five great cave heavens.

Day and night alternate in this cave. If the cliff in the far north is the "end of the world", then the lightless sea in the far south is the "cape".

After the cave dried up, day and night no longer alternated naturally. The day and night, and the rotation of the sun and the moon that people see today are just the "inertia" of nature. In fact, over the past thousand years, the length of day and night has been getting longer, but the process is very slow and not many people can notice it.

Ning Baimei closed his eyes and sensed for a long time, and finally captured the most violent undercurrents in the deep ocean.

So he opened his eyes, moved his body, and plunged into the sea in an instant!
The moment the sea surface cracked, the water surged and boiled.

Ning Baimei's whole body glowed with a jade-green luster, and his clothes were not wet at all under the tremendous water pressure.

The undercurrent was coming like a dragon, but he just flicked his fingers in front of him, and suddenly the sound of swords rang out between his fingers, easily sweeping away the sea water.

When Fu Qingzhou was escaping from Chaozhen Cave Heaven, he encountered the most terrifying gale he had ever seen in his life. In order to escape from the gale, he almost exhausted everything; but at this time, facing the undercurrent of the sea that was almost the same as the gale, Ning Baimei took it lightly.

In just a moment, he had dived deeper into the abyss.

The water here seemed like solidified bronze, and every drop was as heavy as a thousand pounds, but to him, it was just water.

The sword energy in his sleeves formed a vortex, turning all the water pressure into nothingness.

Three thousand miles of deep blue suddenly surged, and the light of the sun and the moon reflected from the sea was shattered into pieces. However, he was able to swim freely in the cracks of the undercurrent, like a dragon playing with a pearl, and even his hair and clothes were not messy.

Soon, Ning Baimei arrived at the deepest part of the abyss.

There was a crack a hundred feet wide lying across the seabed, with faint blue light seeping out from it, like a torn sky.

His eyes lit up slightly, and he dived in without hesitation!

After passing through the gap, Ning Baimei felt his whole body lighten, and when he stepped on solid ground, he found himself in a dry cave.

"This is……"

"Tianzhu Cave Heaven."

he murmured.

The cave was so quiet that you could hear the sound of dust falling to the ground.

It was supposed to be a paradise, but now there are dead vines all over the ground like dying dragon tendons.

Ning Baimei stepped on the ashes on the ground, and the dead vines on the soles of his boots made a mournful sound like broken strings. A half moon was embedded in the cracks in the dome of the cave, and the moonlight condensed into solid silver sand, flowing on the monster's back.

Yes...monster.

There is a monster in the cave.

The thing was lying on the ground, shaped like a hunchbacked old man, but no matter who came and saw it, no one would think it was a person.

It was extremely skinny, with sparse white hair growing on its skin. There were three eyes on each side of its head, and in the center, where the forehead should be, there was a vortex-shaped eyeball - the surface of the eyeball was flowing with nebula-like light patterns, and countless miniature stars could be vaguely seen flowing in the depths of the pupil. In the deadly cave, the seven glowing eyeballs suddenly turned at the same time and looked at Ning Baimei!
Deep in the pupils where the nebula was flowing, it seemed as if countless stars collapsed in an instant, condensing into a tangible pressure that was like an invisible giant hand strangling Ning Baimei's throat!

The air suddenly became as sticky as glue, and every breath pulled at the meridians throughout the body.

The sword energy in Ning Baimei's sleeves surged instinctively, but let out a wail the moment it touched the monster's breath.

His hair moved without wind, and each strand stood up like a steel needle!
Ning Baimei spoke with difficulty, but a broken laugh came out of his throat.

After three years of seclusion, he had almost reached the pinnacle of his career and should have been invincible. However, at this moment, he felt a tremendous pressure that he had not felt in decades!

But he smiled.

He saw his reflection in the central eyeball overlapping and splitting into countless figures. There was him as a baby, a teenager, a young man, a middle-aged man, and even an old age that had never come... He even turned into a dry skeleton.

The monster saw Ning Baimei's entire life at a glance.

"You are actually..."

Ning Baimei was under tremendous pressure and smiled: "This look."

The monster tilted its head and looked at Ning Baimei, the reflection in its central eyeball swaying like water.

Then, its abdomen bulged slightly, and it uttered a sentence without emotion, fluctuation, or tone.

"You are you in my eyes, and I am me in your eyes. You know that when the way of heaven collapses, I will become a monster."

Ning Baimei was slightly stunned.

Then, he laughed: "Yes, yes, it is indeed... the dark side of heaven."

"You are not the one I want to wait for."

The monster's voice remained unchanged: "There is no part of me in you."

"Of course, otherwise I would not show up here in this form." Ning Baimei smiled gently and said, "You are omniscient and omnipotent. I believe you also know what I am here for."

The monster didn't speak this time, but its central eyeball began to move again.

This time, what was reflected in the eyeball were the countless scenes that Ning Baimei had experienced since childhood, but for some reason, some of the scenes were pure white, with nothing else.

His long life was just a few breaths in the eyes of the monster, and it ended in a flash.

"You have seen another side of me in a special way."

The monster said calmly, "You are the good side of the world, and I am the evil side of heaven. Do you want to get rid of me?"

"You're joking."

Ning Baimei lowered his head slightly: "In my eyes, there is no good or evil."

His tone gradually calmed down, as if he was recounting an old story from his past, a little mellow and a little gentle.

"You are the compassionate side of Heaven, but you use killing as a means."

"He is the ruthless side of Heaven, yet He nourishes all things and enables the growth of yin and yang."

"Good and evil are one and the same. All I want is to end this meaningless cycle as soon as possible."

Ning Baimei raised his head and smiled softly: "I guess this is what you are looking for."

"You know a lot."

The monster said: "Then you should know that all this is about to end."

It asks, "What can you do? What do I need you to do?"

"The variables are in the Styx."

Ning Baimei said calmly: "A thousand years ago, your plan ended in the hands of the Lord of the Styx; today, the Lord of the Styx once again appeared beside Fu Qingzhou."

"To combat such variables..."

"Only rely on me."

(End of this chapter)